Are the 1963s coming into their second wind? Tuesday 3 rd April (being the day after Easter Monday)? Tuesday 10 th April? Theme: a bottle of 1963 sighted, no duplicates, no awful shippers — recalling the excellent tasting on 2 Nov 2017: Suggested theme - a bottle of 1970VP sighted, no duplicates, N...

G70 (decant time not recorded by me). Glorious red, 70% opaque. Nose of strawberry and menthol. My first glass was imperfect, but after pouring into a clean vessel it showed beautifully, big and sweet and full of blackberries. In the cold light of a Saturday morning its paucity of points (a ½ from ...

Cr70, decanted 08:00. Red-pink, 35% opaque. Nose gentle: sweetness, mint, alcohol. In other company, or alone, this would have been good Port. But the slight stewedness, and the heat, meant that more attention was given to its sisters.

T66, decanted 06:45. red-pink, 50% opaque. Nose a rich medley of red fruit, including cherry and plum. Palate big and sweet and soft and faultless. Later it showed a hint of banana—not a standard Port fruit.

F66 (decant time not recorded by me). Dark red, 80% opaque. Lordy, it’s 51⅓ years since the harvest, and look at that colour! Palate of plums, heat, and good sweetness. A touch hollow mid-palate, which for me had it behind the T66, but another excellent Port.

F60 , decanted 15:30. Red-red-pink, 40% opaque. Nose of lovely mature port, with red cherries. Palate starts with white pepper spice, then heat. Too hot to be perfect, alas. At finish more of the white pepper, and red fruit — perhaps cherry. Very good mature Port, but below the top rank. This won’t...

To mark the occasion of Mr Wolfgang Starz having become British , some of his new compatriots gathered at The Boot & Flogger to drink Port Fit for a New Subject of Her Majesty . Links: Review of the evening as a whole ; 1960 Fonseca (On behalf of WPS from JDAW); 1963 Fonseca (AHB); 1966 Fonseca (Ext...

To mark the occasion of Mr Wolfgang Starz having become British , some of his new compatriots gathered at The Boot & Flogger to drink Port Fit for a New Subject of Her Majesty . Links: Review of the evening as a whole ; 1960 Fonseca (On behalf of WPS from JDAW); 1963 Fonseca (AHB); 1966 Fonseca (Ext...

To mark the occasion of Mr Wolfgang Starz having become British , some of his new compatriots gathered at The Boot & Flogger to drink Port Fit for a New Subject of Her Majesty . Links: Review of the evening as a whole ; 1960 Fonseca (On behalf of WPS from JDAW); 1963 Fonseca (AHB); 1966 Fonseca (Ext...